The men's 5000 metres in speed skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics took place on 4 February, at the Makomanai Open Stadium.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
Results
Rank Athlete Country Time Ard Schenk 7:23.61 Roar Grønvold 7:28.18 Sten Stensen 7:33.39 4 Göran Claeson 7:36.17 5 Willy Olsen 7:36.47 6 Kees Verkerk 7:39.17 7 Valery Lavrushkin 7:39.26 8 Jan Bols 7:39.40 9 Gerd Zimmermann 7:41.16 10 Dan Carroll 7:44.72 11 Kimmo Koskinen 7:45.15 12 Johnny Höglin 7:45.68 13 Kiyomi Ito 7:45.96 14 Örjan Sandler 7:47.92 15 Giancarlo Gloder 7:55.77 16 Osamu Naito 7:56.97 17 Bruno Toniolli 7:57.30 18 Jouko Salakka 7:57.42 19 Kevin Sirois 8:02.66 20 Charles Gilmore 8:03.04 21 Clark King 8:07.20 22 David Hampton 8:07.85 23 Colin Coates 8:09.35 24 Richard Tourne 8:11.52 25 Andy Barron 8:11.84 26 John Blewitt 8:16.75 27 Herbert Schwarz 8:26.03 28 Luvsansharavyn Tsend 8:30.47
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